Book Reviews

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TWO CRISES, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES: East Asia and Global Finance | Edited by T. J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa

Prema-chandra Athukorala

NIUE 1774–1974: 200 Years of Contact and Change | By Margaret Pointer

Judith A. Bennett

CLAIMING PLACE: On the Agency of Hmong Women | Edited by Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, Ma Vang

Jean Michaud

PIPE POLITICS, CONTESTED WATERS: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai | By Lisa Björkman

Louise Tillin

LIFELONG LEARNING IN NEOLIBERAL JAPAN: Risk, Community, and Knowledge | By Akihiro Ogawa

Simon Avenell

BUILDING CHINA: Informal Work and the New Precariat | By Sarah Swider

Dorothy J. Solinger

POWERPLAY: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia | By Victor D. Cha

Thomas Stow Wilkins

ENGAGING WITH STRANGERS: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands | By Debra McDougall

David Lipset

FORESTS ARE GOLD: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam | By Pamela D. McElwee; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Bradley Camp Davis

COMMUNITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POVERTY IN INDIA: Evidence from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh | By Shashidharan Enarth, Jharna Pathak, Amita Shah, Madhu Verma, John R. Wood

Ganeshdatta Poddar